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Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.
Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.
Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!
When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.
Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.
At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.
The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.
"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."
He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.
Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.
Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.
I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.
You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.
They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.
There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth.
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.
I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.
Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.
Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.
Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.
We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.
In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.
You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.
I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.
Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.
A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.
A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.